India’s Flipkart Isn’t Worried About Amazon, U.S. Designers Lag European Labels in Wooing China, Sticking It to Pinterest

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WSJ Staff

Feb 10, 2012 10:58 am ET

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Indian online retailer Flipkart.com isn’t worried about potential competition from Amazon.com and plans to expand into digital music distribution as it strives to reach $1 billion in sales by the end of 2014, co-founder Binny Bansal said in an interview.WSJ

China is in fashion for top U.S. designers as they look to tap the world’s fastest-growing luxury goods market amid a slow economic recovery at home, but critics say they have lagged their European rivals in seeing the Asian giant’s potential.Reuters

Social media site Pinterest is taking heat after being revealed to have made a practice of embedding tracking code into links users post on their “boards” to generate revenue. But for the time being, disgruntled Pinterest users can look to turn their own profit with an Amazon affiliate partnership and some minor link-changing of their own. Forbes